OpenAI
Tech Lead, Deployment & Operations — Custom Infrastructure
$342K–$445K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted May 16, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of engineering experience in the listed or related technical domains.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates may need to meet certain legal status requirements under U.S. export control laws and regulations.
About the job
Leads deployment and ongoing operations of OpenAI’s custom silicon and systems in data centers, from hardware bring-up and validation through production fleet reliability.
What you'll do
- Lead the team and own deployment, operational readiness, and sustained support for custom hardware platforms.
- Define processes, playbooks, readiness criteria, tooling, and reliability practices; drive fleet deployment, monitoring, debugging, and issue resolution.
- Coordinate across silicon, systems, software, infrastructure, networking, data center, supply chain, and external partner teams; contribute to future ML systems architecture and design.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of engineering experience in hardware systems, infrastructure, data center deployment, production operations, systems engineering, silicon bring-up, or related technical domains.
- Experience taking complex hardware systems from development or validation into production environments.
- Experience with deployment planning, operational readiness, incident response, debugging, and root-cause analysis for production systems.
- Demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and lead senior technical talent.
Pay
$342K - $445K USD (base salary)
AI focus
Deploys and operates custom AI silicon and systems for OpenAI’s supercomputing infrastructure and contributes to future ML systems architecture and design.
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